Hamas-run agency says 13 killed yesterday in Israeli strikes on Gaza

The Hamas-run Gaza’s civil defense agency says Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory yesterday killed at least 13 people, including five in an attack that targeted a police vehicle.

Eight people, including a child, were killed and several others injured when an Israeli airstrike hit a police vehicle in the Al-Mawasi area of the southern city of Khan Yunis, the agency says, which operates as a rescue service under Hamas.

According to the territory’s Hamas-run interior ministry, two of those were police officers.

In a separate incident, three people — a woman and her two children — were killed when Israeli artillery struck residential homes near Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.

In a third attack, an Israeli aircraft struck another police patrol in Gaza City, the territory’s largest urban centre, killing two people and injuring two others, it adds.

The interior ministry confirms that the two killed were police officers.

Gaza’s Al-Shifa and Nasser published the names of 12 of the 13 victims.

The 13th victim was a 12-year-old whose identity could not immediately be confirmed.

The IDF said it struck and killed several armed Hamas operatives who “posed a threat” to Israeli forces stationed nearby in the northern Gaza Strip.

The operatives were targeted in an airstrike “to remove the threat to our forces,” the military said in a statement.

Emanuel Fabian and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.